DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Serial killer Stephen Port used the anonymity offered by the Internet to kill and to deceive the grieving in diabolical ways. But to what extent was he aided and abetted by the incompetence and homophobia of the local police? And to what extent does this prestigious limited series on Britbox stick with the known facts of the case? Christopher and Eric are surprised by the answers as they serve up...

In the first serving of this all new True Crime Pairing, Christopher and Eric head across the pond and into the twisted mind of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, Stephen Port. In "How The Police Missed The Grindr Killer" — the BBC doc is available on You Tube here in the United States — we learn how Port claimed the innocent lives of several young queer men before playing sadistic mi...

With summer on the wane, it's time for a Back to School themed query on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. We asked, you answered. If you could travel back in time and relive your high school experience all over again, what would you do differently and why? Christopher and Eric have their own answers. Incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand joins us with his thoughts on the topic, or does...

With its period costumes and not-always-terrible reenactors, the Discovery Channel series A CRIME TO REMEMBER is a TDPS favorite, but episode 6 of season 4, entitled "Guess Who?" left Christopher and Eric scratching their heads and checking the rafters. This story of marital murder in 1922 Los Angeles at first seems pretty cut and dried….until you look up. As the twists and turns unfold, Eric focu...

In which your hosts Christopher and Eric get self-reflective about something other than their diet plans. Why do we love true crime stories? What do we gain from studying them and discussing them? We asked you for your thoughts on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Many of you went deep, some of you went dark, and that's why you're our Party People.

Christopher and Eric's True Crime Special Editions bring you a multi-episode true crime documentary series in one steaming episode of their opinion-packed podcast. This Special Edition is THE CLOWN AND THE CANDYMAN, currently streaming on Discovery Plus. Is it a probing expose of the secret child abuse rings that connected depraved serial killers Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy or a fevered batch o...

Are we alone in the universe? Did countless residents of Phoenix, Arizona all lose their minds on the same spring evening in 1997? Do the makers of the JJ Abrams produced Showtime documentary series "UFO" care about the answers to these questions as much as Christopher and Eric do? Listen to this out-there episode to find out. It's capped off by a frightening close encounter of the absurd kind wit...

As summer continues, Christopher and Eric take to the high seas of true crime again. This particular journey leads them to a destination so chilling its details are forever seared in their memories. Tom and Jackie Dawes decided to sell their fifty-foot pleasure cruiser so they could move closer to their new grandson. But after a planned meeting with the boat's new buyers, the loving husband and wi...

In their first ever live on location episode of "TDPS Presents CHRISTOPHER & ERIC", your hosts travel to Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas for a mimosa-filled celebration of Premiere Party Person — and Christopher's mother — Anne Rice. For this special tribute, they're joined by bestselling romance authors Lexi Blake and Xio Axelrod, who celebrate the impact Anne had on their work and the world of pre...

Summer's upon us and it's time for Christopher and Eric to set sail on the high seas of murder. Or the more murky waters of mysterious disappearances. Now that Eric has singlehandedly "saved the Peacock", he's plumbing the depths of the NBC streaming platform's true crime offerings and salvaging the most promising pieces of lost cargo. That's how he found CRUISE SHIP KILLERS,  season 1, episode 25...

Our last Pride Month episode of 2022 comes to you on the anniversaries of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decisions that made marriage equality the law of the land. What better way to celebrate than with a tribute to HEARTSTOPPER, a new Netflix series that has forever raised the bar for depictions of queer men and their love. Swoon along with Christopher and Er...

For their Pride Month episode, Eric was on the hunt for a true crime special that impacted the gay community, but what he turned up was a case with shocking parallels to a gruesome unsolved murder your hosts have been trying to draw attention to for years. In season 5, episode 7 of WORLD'S MOST EVIL KILLERS, entitled Patrick Kearney, a man claims to be solely responsible for the gruesome murder an...

As Pride Month continues, Christopher and Eric demand more movies about gay fathers. Until they arrive, they'll have to be content with moves like JOE BELL, the real life story of a father who was forever changed by his gay son's devastating experience with high school bullying. Mark Wahlberg and Reid Miller deliver great performances, but with the same screenwriters as BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, does th...

Christopher and Eric commence their Pride Month observances in an international way with this riveting tale of anti-gay violence, police misconduct and moving family loyalty from Down Under. In "Deep Water – The Real Story", a rash of suspicious deaths and disappearances of gay men at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach reveals a dark legacy of violent hatred and a police force even more complicit than fir...

Beach season is upon us, and that means it's time for Christopher and Eric to turn a fun and sunny thing into a firestorm of apocalyptic negativity. We asked you, our Party People, to share with us your worst vacation experience ever, and boy, did we get some disastrous doozies! And, of course, your hosts shared up their own nightmarish journeys into hurricane force winds, exploding gas stations a...

Batter up! At least we think that's how you say it. Christopher and Eric aren't the biggest baseball fans, but they thought they should celebrate the season with a serving of #TrueCrimeTVClub that features the all American pastimes of Major League Baseball and… Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yeah, that's right. In the twisted Netflix docudrama LONGSHOT, it's time to break out the Cracker Jacks and find out...

Christopher can't seem to stop publishing new novels this year, and poor Eric keeps getting pulled away from his own writing to celebrate their releases. This time it's DECIMATE, a twisty horror thriller about plane crashes, near death experiences and telekinesis in the hands of a madman. Your hosts decided to mark the creepy occasion by asking you, our Party People, to name the book that scared y...

For the second course in our Mother’s Day true crime pairing, it’s a True Crime Movie Time featuring CHANGELING, the too-often overlooked Clint Eastwood film based on the horrors of the Wineville Chicken Coop murders, which we served up in our last episode. The focus this time is on Christine Collins, the courageous mother of one of the victims expertly played by Angelina Jolie in this sad but tru...

As this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club proves, some mothers are for the birds. Dive into the disturbing real life horror show that inspired next week's True Crime Movie Time as Christopher and Eric serve up episode 12, season 3 of EVIL KIN, entitled Body Farm. It's a disturbing exploration of the notorious Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. It's also the first course in our Mo...

Each week, Christopher and Eric post a special Wednesday Question on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Sometimes the responses from you, our Party People, blossom into compelling episodes. Our recent question “What comes after death?” resulted in a fascinating discussion that includes mystical near death experiences, various forms of religious belief and an emotional opportunity for Christoph...

He's called Canada's Jeffrey Epstein. But if you've never heard of Peter Nygard, don't worry, Christopher and Eric hadn't either until diving headfirst into UNSEAMLY: THE INVESTIGATION OF PETER NYGARD available on Discovery Plus. Listen in as your hosts serve up this stunning and devastating tale of how wealth and celebrity were used to enable a vast network of criminality and abuse. From wintry W...

Infamous "don't say gay" bills and their institutionalized bigotry are the new front lines in a culture war designed to distract from one political party's enabling of a criminal president who tried to overthrow the government after spending years supporting a corrupt dictator he worked for and who may now usher in World War III. So Christopher and Eric have decided to go positive! In this episode...

The mysterious disappearance of handsome Hollywood film executive Gavin Smith gets stranger and stranger… depending on who's telling the story. In their first ever True Crime TV Club Redux, Christopher and Eric pit two dueling true crime shows-- each covering the same crime--against each other to find out which one told the truth and which one stretched the facts to breaking. It’s Episode 47, seas...

Christopher and Eric complete their fashionable “true crime pairing” by letting out the hems, the sleeves and the waist on the outrageous ensemble parading through Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci”.  Who are the real villains in this purported true crime opus? The convicted murderers or the fake accents? And who deserves to be nominated for their retelling of this tale of family intrigue and tragedy...

It’s the first in an Oscar season “true crime pairing” and possibly Christopher and Eric’s most fashionable True Crime TV Club to date! In advance of our discussion of the controversial Lady GaGa film based on the same shocking case, Christopher and Eric serve up DATELINE episode 10, season 30, entitled “Murder In The House of Gucci”. So much more than just the facts, ma’am.